Malik Antonio Eley, a 29-year-old Baltimore man with a long record of drug and gun arrests, is wanted on a probation violation, and his whereabouts have reportedly been unknown for months. The Maryland Parole Commission issued a warrant for his arrest in May, accusing him of violating the terms of his supervised release.
According to WBFF, Eley was released from prison in 2024 under supervision tied to his conviction on two counts of felony drug possession with intent to distribute. Since then, the station reports, he has failed to report as required, missed drug testing and skipped treatment — a pattern that led the Maryland Parole Commission to accuse him of violating his release terms outright.
A Trail of Arrests Stretching Back to 2014
Eley's record goes back more than a decade, the outlet notes. In 2014, just days before his 17th birthday, he was arrested for armed robbery and assault involving a firearm in Baltimore City. The following year, while that case was still pending, officers arrested him for assault in Baltimore County, per the same report.
In 2016, investigators found a loaded .32-caliber revolver on the passenger-side floorboard of a vehicle near the Penn-North corridor, according to the station's account. Eley was prohibited from possessing a firearm at the time because of his age and prior convictions, and he received a three-year sentence with two years suspended. The report notes he violated his release conditions twice after serving just one year behind bars.
More Drug Cases Followed in 2017 and 2018
The station's report states Eley was held on felony drug charges in Baltimore City in both 2017 and 2018. During one of those encounters, surveillance cameras reportedly captured him on North Rosedale Avenue appearing to conceal packaged narcotics; when officers detained him, they found white gel capsules containing suspected heroin and suspected cocaine, the outlet reports.
Those cases were followed by another arrest in 2020, when Eley was taken into custody again for felony drug possession with intent to distribute. He was later found guilty and sent to prison for two handgun-related offenses, according to the same report — the sentence that preceded his 2024 release onto supervised release.
Marshals Call the Missed Supervision a Danger
The U.S. Marshals Service said Eley's violations of his supervised-release terms present a danger to both him and the community, per the station's reporting. The Maryland Parole Commission's own published guidance, found in its annual report, says commissioners are authorized to issue warrants for the return of alleged violators to custody and to revoke supervision once a violation of parole or mandatory-supervision-release conditions is found.
Investigators are asking anyone with information about Eley's location to contact the U.S. Marshals Service at 202-819-5058 or 1-877-WANTED-2. Tips can be submitted anonymously and may be eligible for a reward, the station reports. The U.S. Marshals Service also lists a tip-submission process on its own site, including an email option, through its fugitive tip page.
